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Our activity report presents the strategic axis of HEC and the projects financed thanks to the generosity of our 2,700 donors and 48 corporate partners.
A record number of participants enjoyed the 2019 Seed Entrepreneurship Summit on April 30 this year focusing on “investing in good”. The second edition at Station F “was bigger, broader and younger,” according to its organizers. It featured debates, innovation and startup awards and keynote exchanges with Alexandre Mars and Tigrane Seydoux.
Bringing electricity to rural Africa, providing keys for the continent’s 100 best startups and harnessing the potential of African music. These were the highlights of the third edition of HEC AfricaDays which featured leading proponents from each of these fields, all offering “African solutions for global issues”.
Huddled amongst the 49,155 runners of the 43rd Schneider Electric Marathon in Paris were eight Italian, Belgian and Luxembourger students in HEC colors. Their baptismal marathon on April 14 also raised €5,455 for over 100 Cameroonian primary school children.
Call to innovative & early stage startups from the HEC ecosystem: $25,000 prize to be won.
HEC Paris, ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a three-year partnership setting up a joint-Chair to study long-term economic tendencies and opportunities in Space Economy. The trio seeks to capitalize on rapid advances in materials science and the dramatic drop in cost of access to space to forge new economic initiatives in the space sector.
Congratulations to HEC PhD 2015 Alumnus, Lionel Paolella, for figuring amongst the 2019 top 40 professors. Lionel is lecturer at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
HEC’s Master in Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI) reached its 2019 climax when over 50 mainly SASI students, accompanied by a staff member and an academic, spent 10 days in the East African nation of Rwanda. The historic visit coincided with the nation’s 25th annual commemoration of the 1994 genocide.
Jeremy Ghez has been chosen as one of the 40 top under-40s professors in 2019 by Poets & Quants.
HEC Crisis Challenge coordinated the second edition of its student-led crisis simulation on April 11-12 in a high-pressure exercise involving six business schools. 66 students, divided into 14 teams, grappled with four crisis scenarios with four going through to a media-centered final.
